Metal body for road-wagons



(N40 Model.)

C. A. RUSSELL. METAL BODY FOR ROAD WAGONS.

No. 453,868. Patented June 9,1891.

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CHARLES A. RUSSELL, OF OTSEGO, MICHIGAN.

METAL BODY FOR ROAD-WAGONS.

SPECIFICLATIN forming part of Letters Patent N o. 453,868, dated June 9,1891.

Application filed September 15,1890. Serial No. 364,971. (No model.)

To all whom. t may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. RUSSELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Otsego, county of Allegan, State of Michigan, have inventeda new and useful Metal Body for Road-Vagons, of which the following is aspecication.

This invention consists in the construction of a vehicle-body in whichare employed a base-frame and a Seatsupport which are constructed frornangle metal.

Another object is to construct a body coniposed of said parts and anupper riin or boundary of the upper edge ot the body made from the `samematerial and provided with metal spindles between and supporting thesaine above each other.

Another object consists in a basket made from woven wire to be placed insaid body to prevent articles from falling out between the spindles.

A further object consists in the peculiar construction and combinationof parts as deiined and claimed below.

In the drawings forming a part of this specication, Figure l is a planview. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on line C 6 in Fig. l. Fig. 3shows enlarged broken details from Fig. 2, with parts in section on line7 7 in Fig. l. Fig. 4: is a section on line 3 3 in Fig. 2 enlarged,looking from a point at the left; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged section of alettered detail on line 4 el. in Fig. 2, looking from a point at theleft.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, at B is shown the basebar or sill extending along each side and across the rear end, as inFig. l, and inade of angle metal, as shown in Fig. 5, so that the bottomboard A may be supported upon said flange, as in Figs. 2 and 3. Theseat-support is made out of angle metal, a bar of the saine being oneach side and extending upward and thence horizontally rearward, asshown at D. Between the horizontal part of the seatsupport and the baseB is a horizontal bar O, extending along both sides and across the rearof 'the body, as in Figs. l and 2, the saine being niade of anglernetal, as in Fig 4, and the front ends of said bar being attached tothe upwardly extending portions of the seat-support D.

This constitutes the upper edge or boundary of the body proper. Theangle of the bar C is iilled with a wooden strip "1f, which cornes onthe inside, and hence is covered on the outside by the downward iiangeof said bar. The horizontal parts of the seat-support are provided intheir angles with a strip of wood l", the wooden strips in the angles ofboth of these bars being shown in Fig. 3 and by dotted lines in Fig. 4.

Parallel and above the flange of the base B is a nieta] strip z, whichrests upon the edges of the bottom A.

The horizontal portions of the bars B O are held at a proper distanceone above the other by posts a, the ends of said posts passing throughthe wood, the strip t, and ianges ot' the bars B O, and are riveted overat the upper end and provided with a nut at the lower end, as shown inFig. 3. As many of these posts may be employed as desirable to bind theparts together and hold` them in proper relation with each other. Ashere shown, they have counter-sunk heads fr at their upper end and nutson their lower end. rlhe angle-bars D and O are held and bound in likemanner by posts c', Figs. 2. and 3.

Between the horizontal parts of the bars B and O are separated metalspindles e, said spindles having tenoned ends fitting into holes made inthe wooden strips fi at the upper end, and through the base-strip t, andinto the iioor A. at the lower end, as clearly shown in 3. In thelongitudinal space between the anglebar C and the horizontal part of theseat-supporting bar D are separated spindles e', of like construction asthose j ust described and shown at c, with the exception that the woodenstrip 'i takes the place of the iioor A in relation to the lower ends ofthe spindles. Such a construction is light, strong, very orna` mental,and less liable to shrink and getout of order than vehicle-bodiesemploying rails and other parts which are made of wood.

In Fig. 2 it will be observed that a inetal basket made from woven wireis placed in the body and within the spindles, the sides of the sameextending a short distance upward from the bottom. One side of saidbasket is shown at N. In use, of course, there will be at least twosides and a rear end to said basket, sub- IOC l I elailn as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent ot' the United States, is-

1. A vehicle-body composed of the sills of angle metal, a bottoni boardhaving its edges resting on the iiange thereof, a metal strip upon saidedges above the sill, the angleinetal bar at the upper edge of the bodyand the angle-metal bar extending upward and rearward, forming aseat-support, and the binding-posts and spindles between said bars,substantially as set forth.

2. A vehicle-body composed of the sills of angle niet-al, a bottom boardhaving its edges resting on the iiange thereof, a metal strip upon saidedges above the sill, the angleinetal bar at the upper edge of the bodyand the angle-metal bar extending upward and rearward, forming aseat-support, the angle of the horizontal part of said seat-support andthe angle of the bar bounding the upper edge of the body being iilledwith a strip of wood, and the binding-posts and spindles between saidbars, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing, I have hereunto subscribed my naine inpreseneeot` two witnesses.

CHARLES A. RUSSELL.

Witnesses;

CHANGES? Al BARNES, WiLL MANsFiELD.

